Raising Readers
Picture Books
Falling for Rapunzel
Leah Wilcox
E/W
A prince tries to get Rapunzel to throw down her hair so he can rescue her, but she mishears him and throws down random objects from her room instead.
Knuffle Bunny
Mo Willems
E/W
Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat but when they go home they forget Knuffle Bunny.
Wild About Books
Judy Sierra
E/S
A librarian named Molly McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
Fiction
Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke
X Funke
Firedrake, Ben and their furry friend, Sorrel, are in search of the mythical place where dragons can live in peace forever.
The Postman Always Brings Mice
Holm & Hamel
X Holm
A dashing feline spy is dismayed to find himself stranded in New Jersey and adopted by a typical suburban family, until he puts his skills to good use for his new human.
Young Adult
Airborn
Kenneth Oppel
F Oppel
Matt, a young cabin aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above Earth's surface
Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli
X Spinelli
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a naive young orphan boy learns first-hand about the harsh treatment of the local Jewish population.